Caitlyn Jenner Is Joining Transparent Season 3

Even in the short time since the 2014 debut of Amazon’s critically acclaimed series Transparent, the national conversation about transgender rights has made leaps and bounds. The show, eager to catch up in its second season, added behind-the-camera transgender talent to the transgender performers already appearing on the show. And now, inevitably, Transparent is adding arguably the world’s most famous trans woman, Caitlyn Jenner, to Season 3.

Show creator Jill Soloway announced the news at the 2016 GLAAD Media Awards over the weekend. Though she was tight-lipped about the nature of Jenner’s involvement, Soloway did say the former Vanity Fair cover girl will begin filming her scenes next week.

No word yet on whether Jenner will play herself or make her acting debut in character as someone else, but Soloway says Jenner was more than willing to climb on board. “We are all part of the same community,” Soloway said. “A lot of the transwomen who work on our show are also in her show, I am Cait. Lots of crossover. Lots of friends.”

In fact, the worlds of Caitlyn Jenner and Transparent have been influencing each other from the start. Jenner has cited Transparent as an inspiration for her own coming out and watched the show with daughter Kim Kardashian to help the family ease through her transition. Soloway, in turn, says a lot of Season 2 was inspired by Jenner’s 2015 interview with Diane Sawyer.

“When we were watching the special, my writers and I realized that they answered a lot of the basic questions that we had felt were our responsibility,” Soloway told Rolling Stone. “We don’t have to worry so much about the educational aspect of transitioning now. Because there were so few trans story lines, I really wanted to protect Maura in the first season. Now we were free to do more things.”

Among those things? Making way for Jenner to appear when Transparent returns this fall.